SG76
London Underground, 1862
SG76
1862 - Bright Carmine-rose - plate 2
SG76a
Three roses and one thistle error watermark
SG76b
1863 - Deep Carmine-rose THICK PAPER
Specimen
Watermark
76/76b Emblems
Watermark
Showing the watermark as seen on the reverse of the stamp.
Watermark
76a Emblems (error)
Secret dot
#76 comes from plate 2, it has no secret dot
Plate 2
5,172,000 stamps
Plate 3
1,200 stamps
1863 Overseas mail. An envelope from London to Melbourne, Australia bearing a 3d Bright carmine-rose Pl.2 (SG76) and a 6d Lilac Pl.3 (SG 84) neatly tied by London City "3" numerals. Backstamped by a London dispatch datestamp for AP.27.1863 and a Melbourne arrival
Melbourne, 1860
Printing Dates
Plate 2
19th March 1862 - December 1864 (?)
Plate 3
25th August, 1862,
The 3d rate
This value was created exclusively for the prepayment of letters going abroad, especially to Belgium and Switzerland ; and it was not till the 1st April, 1865, that it became available for inland postage, there being no rate of threepence for inland letters until this date, when the letter-rate was fixed at one penny for every half-ounce, or fraction thereof.
Essays and proofs
Imprimatur
Registration Dates
Plate 1
Defective, not used
Plate 2
19th March, 1862
Plate 3
25th August 1862 (not issued)
Proof
Die proof on glazed white card
Proof
Printer’s ‘make ready’ proof sheet printed in the issued colour on unwatermarked rose wove paper
Postal Notice
1862 Postal Notice from GPO, dated April 1862 to Postmasters announcing the forthcoming issue of the 3d stamp, bearing 3d rose Plate 2 (SD) state 2, optd ‘SPECIMEN’ type 5
Panes
Wing margin stamps come from the center part of the sheet. In the pane shown above the left column of stamps have wing margins, There is no such thing as a straight edge perforated stamp in GB stamps.
Surface Printed - with small letters
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